Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6334R

Smiths Group PLC

20 November 2012

 



20 NOVEMBER 2012

SMITHS GROUP PLC - RESULT OF AGM

LISTING RULE LR 9.6.18 R

The Company is pleased to announce that all the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting held on 20 November 2012 were subject to polls and were passed by the necessary majority. 

The results of the polls on the resolutions are shown below and will be posted on the Company's website, www.smiths.com.

Resolutions		Votes For	%	Votes Against	%	% of ISC* voted	Votes Withheld
1.	Adoption of Annual Report	260,137,199	99.81	487,764	0.19	66.31%	3,327,076
2.	Approval of Directors' Remuneration Report	218,523,424	90.74	22,305,525	9.26	61.27%	23,123,090
3.	Declaration of final Dividend	263,753,807	>99.99	2,278	<0.01	67.11%	195,954
4.	Re-election of Mr B.F.J. Angelici as a director	263,023,953	99.73	714,825	0.27	67.10%	213,261
5.	Re-election of Mr P. Bowman as a director	261,675,206	99.22	2,067,438	0.78	67.10%	209,395
6.	Re-election of Mr D.H. Brydon as a director	259,190,091	98.32	4,436,126	1.68	67.07%	325,822
7.	Re-election of Mr D.J. Challen as a director	263,007,895	99.72	730,982	0.28	67.10%	213,162
8.	Election of Ms T.D. Fratto as a director	263,031,691	99.73	707,364	0.27	67.10%	212,984
9.	Re-election of Ms A.C. Quinn as a director	262,061,899	99.73	716,132	0.27	66.86%	1,174,008
10.	Re-election of Sir Kevin Tebbit as a director	263,011,901	99.72	729,315	0.28	67.10%	210,823
11.	Re-election of Mr P.A. Turner as a director	263,318,257	99.84	419,705	0.16	67.10%	214,077
12.	Re-appointment of PwC as auditors	259,934,616	98.55	3,820,787	1.45	67.11%	196,636
13.	Auditors' remuneration	263,083,610	99.75	652,684	0.25	67.10%	215,745
14.	Authorities to issue shares pursuant to s551 of Companies Act 2006	252,581,574	97.63	6,119,002	2.37	65.82%	5,251,463
15.	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	259,590,499	99.77	599,439	0.23	66.20%	3,762,101
16.	Authority to make market purchases of shares	260,932,265	99.62	988,439	0.38	66.64%	2,031,335
17.	Notice period for general meetings	234,318,117	88.84	29,428,438	11.16	67.10%	205,484
18.	Political donations etc.	256,829,810	98.36	4,270,779	1.64	66.43%	2,851,450

*           ISC = issued share capital of the Company

Notes:

(i)       Where shareholders appointed the Chairman of the Meeting as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column.

(ii)      A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution.

(iii)     There were 393,046,408 ordinary shares of 37.5p in issue at the time of the AGM.

(iv)      Resolutions Nos. 1 to 14 and 18 were passed as ordinary resolutions.  Resolutions Nos. 15 to 17 were passed as special resolutions.

LISTING RULE LR 9.6.3 R

A copy of all the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 20 November 2012 will be uploaded to the UK Financial Services Authority National Storage Mechanism.  This may be viewed online by visiting the National Storage Mechanism website at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

Neil Burdett

Deputy Secretary

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